I'm colorblind, so until this article I had no idea that Yoda wasn't already flesh colored. (What color is he? I'm guessing green — I don't see green very well.)

Young Heinlein or Old Heinlein? If I got story ideas from Young Heinlein I'd leverage them into a great career as an author. If I received story ideas from Old Heinlein I'd alert Homeland Security and the nearest Special Victims Unit.

Really? Huh. I learn something new everyday.

In a better world, there'd be a nightclub named Sexual Tyrannosaurus...

Yes, that's the point. This is an end-run around the problem of creating an AI. Instead of figuring out the logical rules that will lead to intelligence, they are building the infrastructure of the human brain and hoping intelligence arises from the structure of neural interactions, with no rules explicitly defined.

Wait. This article was so good that I almost didn't notice that you're classing Jaws as a supervillain. I can let you slide on Skynet, but Jaws? Jaws has no minions, no secret base and no diabolical plots more subtle than chomp, chomp, chomp. What does he scheme about in his down time, humans with friggin' lasers…

Your yearly quota on these types of stories is, I hope, only one. Any chance you could reduce it a little?

They're saying that if there's enough noise in the system, it doesn't matter whether you observe it directly or not. So what they're basically saying is that if you riddle the box with enough bullets and shrapnel you no longer need to check to know what the cat's status is.

Dildo makers can now make cheap, custom-shaped wares on your front lawn and hawk them to your neighbors.

Okay, now I want to see someone do it in 3D and smell-o-vision.

There is also enough solar radiation on this planet (even just in a small patch of the Sahara) to meet all our energy needs. There is also enough wave and water power to meet all our energy needs.

NCSoft is making money on CoH. It's in the black. The problem is that they're changing their focus to the Asian market, so the games that appeal most to American gamers are being cut.

Because CoH has a record feature and some players have hacked it into a full animation editor, someone recorded everyone's costume and put together a combined protest. This video shows 3000 heroes, from all the instances of Atlas Park on the Virtue server. (The Freedom server had another 3000.)

Kickstarter has been discussed but it isn't an option. They only take 'new' projects — saving CoH is an 'old' project.

Atlas Park creates another instance when it hits 50 players, but it doesn't show up as full until 100-150 (the exact number isn't known). So there are at least 3200 users in.

Yes, there is. A friend of mine works there, and they have been trying to get the park administrators to deal with the rodent problem for years. Now, finally, something is being done. But it took some people getting sick to make any cleanup happen.

Knowing the sodium/water reaction going on, the video above made me nervous. Then you told me it was in gasoline and I almost wet my pants.

And remember not to overdo it like somepony we know.

All of these HISHE videos end with Superman and Batman chatting, usually with another guest. They're hilarious.

I prefer the theory that when the snake bit the man he got so angry that he turned big and green and bit back. His new Hulk physiology took care of the venom without a problem.